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sentenceful

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English

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Etymology

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From sentence +‎ -ful.

Noun

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sentenceful (plural sentencefuls or sentencesful)

  1. The amount contained within a sentence.
    • 1888, G[eorge] T[homas] Bettany, book IV (The Inhabitants of America), chapter I (The Canadians), in The World's Inhabitants; or, Mankind, Animals, and Plants [], London: Ward, Lock & Co., page 717:
      Some have a great abundance of suffixes, others of prefixes; some have little distinction between verb and noun; some have an extreme of combination, a long word of fifteen syllables including a sentenceful of meaning.